Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

By Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson

Behaving Badly examines crime that was socially visible in contemporary social panics and moral outrage in both the Victorian period and the late twentieth century. Through a series of interconnected case studies, exploring the social and legal responses to such offending, and their public presentation through popular reporting and the court system, Behaving Badly highlights a series of apparent continuities as well as discontinuities in the making of legislation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754609650
• ISBN13: 9780754609650
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"